The Lawton Constitution & Morning Press (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 41, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 11, 1970 Page: 2 of 48
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Survey Shows Full-Time Hired Hands On Farm To Get More Than Yearly Salary
survey were employed on farms benefits varied from 55 per
having gross annual sales of cent on fruit and nut farms to
$1.38 an hour for all workers,
compared with $1.29 on July 1,
1969 and $1.18 on July 1, 1968.
In the 1966 study the list of
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stand guard at a bridge near Taing Kauk. some 47
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went into effect early in 1967 Sellers said he did not think fits such as paid vacations. inl-
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knows where else. Three times shorter hops. He walks about 10
at those holm conventions Big miles a day.
Twyhp been named Hobo of The housing problem is more
severe. Most of the hobo jun-i
But now, he says, hippies and les are and those that
winos have taken over the few
remaining hobo jungles, and remain are dangerous - taken
have given hobos a bad name over by hippies and winos, Gor-
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BUT Gorman gave his correct
name and told the sheriff he
was from St. Louis.
“So you're the smart guy
from the big town,” the sheriff
in Seymour, Ind., many years
ago, he and several other hobos
were found boiling chickens
which matched the description
of several stolen earlier from a
railroad poultry car. The county
sheriff was trying to determine
the men's identifications and
was frustrated by the hoboes
naming small towns he had nev-
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birth.
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$20,000 or more. 90 per cent on cotton farms.
Nearly half of the workers Total wages including bene-
were furnished a house, the re- fils averaged about $2,200 an-
perquisites included housing
room and board, meals only,
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going to have to provide some the report, told a reporter been recent indications that based survey, Agriculture De-
fringe benefits beyond a yearly there seems to be a feeling the1 workers are seeking higher l partment reports show that av-housing plus garden plots, meat port said, and of these about nually on farms grossing less
salary. ‘ “ minimum wage provisions now cash wages and, in some cases, erage wages have climbed......
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says most farm employers al- pansion is undertaken,
ready do this by furnishing The farm minimum wage for-
perquisites or noncash bene- mula in effect since 1967 now
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Economic Research Service, no- would have hiked the basic min-
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wage rules governing some eluding a minimum for hired
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BIG Town, the oldest of 14
children in an Irish-Catholic
family, left horn when he was 16.
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his family since.
Gorman, America’s oldest
known practicing hobo, helped
make glamorous.
James Joseph Gorman was
born 78 years ago in St. Louis,
Mo., and has a 1919 driver’s
license to prove it.
"I got prosperous once and
bought an old truck. It was real
nice—I had a bed and every-
thing in it, but the darned Hung !
burned up.”
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The old AND the railroads, historically
man with no name and a par- the favorite means of transpor-
tiaily paralyzed face drifted intonation for Big Town and his
town, as he has been drifting kind, now move too fast to board
into towns for so many, many while in motion. And besides,
years. But times have changed, trucks now make most of the
And the life of the hobo, al- short freight hauls, leaving the
though still independent, is less rails good only for long trips,
rewarding now. - Big Town got his nickname
The hippies. The winos. Infla- from an official of ‘'The Estab-
tion and the declining railroad lishment" who was friendly, and
industry. They all have altered the paralysis on his face from
the life-style "which Big Town one who was not.
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